Photoshop: Liquify Filter in CS6 not working on my machine (bug in ATI video card drivers)

Brand new CS6 on a large, current iMac. The Liquify filter has been great for me in all previous versions CS3 on. But it simply DOES NOT WORK in CS6. I creates strange light boxes as random artifacts in any layer I try to filter.

There seems to be a few problems with the liquify filter. I am running cs6 on my Windows 7 machine with an ATI 5650 graphics card and the only way I can get liquify to work is to disable photoshop fro using the graphics processor. Previous versions have all worked well. Very disappointing...

10-06 what? Do you mean Mac OS? Nope. Not a bit. Lion was bad. Mountain Lion was better, but still fails regularly. Also, there are other serious bugs in CS6. The cursor regularly disappears. You have to go to Finder and back to restore the cursor. Lasso fails regularly by just not selecting anything. May be problem with Mac OS, except that CS3 still works properly.

This topic is about an issue with Photoshop CS6 and previous MacOS versions, about 3 years ago. Since that time, Adobe has worked around some of the OS bugs and fixed known issues, and Apple has fixed some of the OS bugs.

All applications and plugins are dependent on the OS working correctly. When the OS has a bug, applications can sometimes work around it, and sometimes have to wait for the OS vendor to fix it.

Mac El Cap OS now allows the Liquify Filter to work better. However this OS introduced a serious problem -- you cannot use the Wacom tablet and the keyboard at the same time. Also, selecting tools has about a 3-second delay.

I purchased and installed Lion, per your recommendation. Not only did this break a huge number of apps (including your own CS6 !), but it did not at all fix the problem. So I am out $40, plus another $150 to buy other new apps I don't need or want, plus 7 hours of install and update time. Bottom line: CS6 STILL doesn't work properly unless GPU mode is altered.

Why does this problem not have an answer? If the problem is AMD radeon ATI 3000, why no specific answer. If the current driver needs to be removed. How do you do that? If the it needs a new driver, how do you install it. Yes there are still some stupid people using complicated programs.

The problem was answered: it was a bug in the video card driver, which can be solved by updating the driver (back then you had to roll back the driver, but they have fixed the bug since), disabling GPU usage in Liquify, or setting the GPU usage mode to "Basic".

This is absolutely not the answer. Apple has an agreement with the chip vendor prohibiting the chip vendor from directly distribution drivers. The chip vendor says that it is necessary to wait for, or pay for, an updated MAC OS. However, Apple did not update the driver in MAC OS updates, and refuses to support either the hardware or the software under their 3-year user maintenance agreement.

But is still the answer. If you cannot update the video card driver on MacOS, or get an OS update that includes the bug fix, then you will need to disable GPU support in Liquify or set the GPU display mode to Basic to avoid the video driver bug.
If you are unhappy about not being able to update video card drivers on MacOS - please let Apple know about that.

Well, disabling GPU support and running Photoshop in "Basic" mode was exactly Apple's "fix." Why am I paying $3000 for a computer that is then set to run in crippled performance mode ??

As for "telling Apple I am unhappy," how exactly do I do that? Apple has absolutely no provision to do that. I talked to the most senior Mac person in Palo Alto, and he refused to even create a problem report, even though he had my hardware in front of him and could see it didn't work properly.

Apple has forums, technical support lines, and even stores where you can tell people about problems in person. However, the store staff should have entered a bug report in RADAR (Apple's bug tracking system) at least.